GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| debonair | suave |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |